Documentary: ACT UP Fight to Stop AIDS Epidemic

RUSA would like to invite you to very special movie screening of “How to Survive a Plague?”, a documentary dedicated to one of the critical issues in the U.S. LGBT history – HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980-1990s, and the most prominent advocacy group “ACT UP”. ACT UP was the first organization pushing the U.S. government to start a development of HIV/AIDS medication.

We are very lucky that ACT UP founding member and RUSA LGBT friends Alan Klein, Ron Goldberg, and Alexis Danzig will be joining us after the screening for a conversation and Q&A. Do not miss this event!

About our special guests – Alan, Ron and Alexis have been involved in social justice issues for decades. All three are also members of Queer Nation and they were working closely with RUSA LGBT on bringing world’s attention to drastic changes in Russian government’s policies and sentiment toward LGBTIQ community. We took part in many demonstrations together and learned a lot from Queer Nation’s friends.

Please, come to learn about history of our community’s fight against HIV/AIDS. This is especially important in light of increasing immigration of HIV people from Russia and other post-Soviet countries due to limitations in availability of the HIV/ AIDS resources.